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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Walker's reliance on Coal hurts Rural Farmers, their Income and Job Creation.

Wind energy is a great rural job creator across the country, but not in Walker's Wisconsin. I'm just hoping a few Democrats will read this and decide to ride the wind wave into rural voter support. Unlike most GOP rhetoric, this is a real issue they can get behind.

A new
report says proposed renewable energy investments in Minnesota could
create

From 1923...Wisconsin's not there yet...

more than 5,000 construction jobs and $7 billion in economic activity,
largely in conservative, rural parts of the state.“We are clearly seeing a bigger (political) divide in
Minnesota and clean energy is a way to bridge that divide,” said Chris
Kunkle, Wind on the Wires regional
policy manager for Minnesota. “You’re talking about advancing policies and
investments from the Twin Cities that benefit rural Minnesota and create new
jobs and tax revenue. These are in really red areas, this is rural America."

And just like Wisconsin, rural voters in Minnesota "wanted to try something different:"

You'd never know it by anything Republicans say in Wisconsin, but wind technology has dramatically changed:

The reason for newly proposed projects in those counties
stems from improved turbine technology that allows for greater production out
of less wind, policy manager Chris Kunkle said.The report shows that more than 3,300 megawatts (MW)
of wind projects could create 12,573 jobs, including those in
construction, while paying property owners $9 million annually in lease
payments and local governments in excess of $9 million in taxes.

But if Republicans finally get their way, failed bills from the past will pass and dramatically change everything, at their own peril:

Michael Webber, deputy director of the Energy Institute at
the University of Texas, believes perils exist for any move by Trump to push
for the removal of tax credits. “All those rural districts in America’s wind corridor might
not be thrilled if their preferred candidate seeks to undermine one of their
most important sources of economic growth,” he wrote
recently in the New York Times.

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